Author Archive

  • Jason Merrell: Subscribe For More (Building a YouTube Community)

    Jason Merrell: Subscribe For More (Building a YouTube Community)

    WordCamp San Antonio 2015

    April 4, 2015 — Over 6 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube every month. That’s nearly one hour for each person on the planet — Every. Month. There’s no doubting the power of YouTube; it is the world’s second largest search engine,after all. The question is: how do you harness it? Jason Merrell — a popular YouTuber with over 70,000 fans — believes that being successful on YouTube is about more than the meta data, it’s about building a community.

  • Forum: WordPress Tips and Tricks

    Forum: WordPress Tips and Tricks

    WordPress Meetup Northeast PASpeakers: Phil Erb, Joe Casabona, Stephanie Williams

    April 3, 2015 — The February 2015 Northeast PA WordPress meetup hosted a forum of WordPress tips and tricks. Members talk about some of their favorite plugins and solutions to their problems.

  • Elizabeth Pampalone: Plugin-Play

    Elizabeth Pampalone: Plugin-Play

    WordCamp Orlando 2014Speaker: Elizabeth Pampalone

    April 3, 2015 — This presentation covers what plugins are necessary to maintain a healthy website and which ones are worth paying for. WordPress has over 25,000 plugins and not all of them are worth your time.

  • Daniel Roch : Ne faites jamais confiance à WordPress et à ses utilisateurs

    Daniel Roch : Ne faites jamais confiance à WordPress et à ses utilisateurs

    WordCamp Paris 2015Speaker: Daniel Roch

    April 2, 2015 — WordPress est un excellent outil. Très souvent, nous allons l’installer facilement, utiliser un joli thème qui correspond à nos besoins et installer quelques plugins. Mais malheureusement, nous allons tous avoir un énorme défaut : nous faisons confiance à WordPress, aux utilisateurs du site, aux plugins et à notre thème. Et c’est là que les problèmes commencent : failles de sécurité, contenus impossibles à référencer, mauvaises performances générales, contenus dupliqués, mauvais ergonomie… Lors de cet atelier, nous verrons en revue différentes problématiques récurrentes et spécifiques que j’ai pu rencontré sur des sites WordPress, tout en testant en même temps vos sites. en direct.

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  • Julio Potier : Traduction – vous faites fausse route !

    Julio Potier : Traduction – vous faites fausse route !

    WordCamp Paris 2015Speaker: Julio Potier

    April 2, 2015 — La traduction dans WordPress est très bien gérée via une API qui utilise les fichiers po/mo.
    Encore faut-il bien l’utiliser et l’utiliser partout.
    Avez-vous pensé aux fichiers JavaScript à internationaliser ? N’avez-vous pas réinventé la roue avec votre propre système incompatible WP ? Utilisez-vous correctement les fonctions disponibles ? Les connaissez-vous toutes ?

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  • Brian Cohn: Managing Your Sites the CHEEZburger Way

    Brian Cohn: Managing Your Sites the CHEEZburger Way

    WordPress Meetup NYCSpeaker: Brian Cohn

    April 2, 2015 — There are many approaches to building websites, but when it comes time to managing multiple websites, the approach that utilizes the most reusable code makes it a lot easier. By leveraging one theme to run multiple websites, you only have to familiarize yourself with one codebase and turn the development and managing of multiple websites into one. In this talk, Brian will share his experience and tips in utilizing this approach.

  • Travis Totz: Working Off Grid And Remote

    Travis Totz: Working Off Grid And Remote

    WordCamp Maui 2015Speaker: Travis Totz

    April 2, 2015 — This talk discusses my experience running a WordPress business while being “off-grid”, the types of products that make this lifestyle a possibility, and the challenges that come along with it.

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  • Jack Lenox: Building Themes With The WP REST API

    Jack Lenox: Building Themes With The WP REST API

    WordCamp Maui 2015Speaker: Jack Lenox

    April 2, 2015 — With the REST API shortly due to be merged into WordPress core, it’s about time developers started thinking about building themes that use it. The REST API allows developers to create much more engaging user experiences. This is a talk that covers the challenges one faces when working with the REST API, how to extend the REST API itself from within your theme, and suggested ways that themes can be built to use it.

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  • Karim Marucchi: Getting Past Employee #1

    Karim Marucchi: Getting Past Employee #1

    WordCamp Orlando 2014Speaker: Karim Marucchi

    April 1, 2015 — Getting past yourself – from hiring a second employee, to asking for help, to having your vision…adjusted…is all part of the challenge of growing a company. Come hear my story, with tips for those looking to grow their business past themselves.

  • Kevin Bates: Your First Profitable Facebook Ad

    Kevin Bates: Your First Profitable Facebook Ad

    WordCamp Maui 2015Speaker: Kevin Bates

    March 31, 2015 — This talk shows you all of the elements of a successful Facebook Ads campaign that earns more money than it costs. By the end of this workshop you’ll have everything you need to launch your first profitable campaign on Facebook.